My Glacier type player has a blank screen, white in colour

[ballboff]

My pc crashed whilst in the middle of a firmware upgrade. I believe from reading on various forums that my 8 gig glacier was hacked, and indeed it only had 1 gig of storage on it. I may be wrong, but it would explain why I was having bother storing mp3 on it.

The problem I have now is that I have a blank screen, white in colour! My pc recognises it, but unfortunately I can't format it or reset it, or try to update the firmware again.

[Tony Saul]

Hi.
This is combinatopn of the last few posts I made about what looks like exactly the same player as you.
Hope it helps.

I looked for my player on this site where all the images are posted, and found the same one (all be it a different colour). This led me to http://www.mympxplayer.org/glacier-r...evc-df621.html
This download includes loads of firmware (operating system software versions) for glacier type mp4's and instructions on how to reboot the player if it is locked up.
Try them all until you get ones that load ok then make sure you get the one out of these that starts the player into the correct start up screen!
PS Although the computer may not recognise it the upgrade tool probably will and say that the mp4 is in boot up state or something similar. (Prob no need to do the chip shorting bit unless you have no luck.) My player was a chinese 8gb (will prob only format to 2gb if it's the same Glacier type as mine).
I thought I would just mention though that I had to flash my memory to get the player going again (out of a perpetual hour glass state which turned to white screen with wrong flashes) with fimware (mine was a Glacier 8gb type) and one of the flashes that seem to load ok allowed the player to play audios and not video. I tried a different one that also loaded and allowed me to boot to menus and this one played both, hurray. (This was the one that gave me the same welcome message on boot up as it originally had!)

I then set about using an amv converter recomended from this site and experimented with all sizes and frame rates and video settings. Mine would only play frame rates of 10 (12 and 15 would cause errors independent of resolution or picture dimensions!)

Good Luck
Tony

[ballboff]

Originally Posted by Tony Saul";p=&quot

Hi.
This is combinatopn of the last few posts I made about what looks like exactly the same player as you.
Hope it helps.

I looked for my player on this site where all the images are posted, and found the same one (all be it a different colour). This led me to http://www.mympxplayer.org/glacier-r...evc-df621.html
This download includes loads of firmware (operating system software versions) for glacier type mp4's and instructions on how to reboot the player if it is locked up.
Try them all until you get ones that load ok then make sure you get the one out of these that starts the player into the correct start up screen!
PS Although the computer may not recognise it the upgrade tool probably will and say that the mp4 is in boot up state or something similar. (Prob no need to do the chip shorting bit unless you have no luck.) My player was a chinese 8gb (will prob only format to 2gb if it's the same Glacier type as mine).
I thought I would just mention though that I had to flash my memory to get the player going again (out of a perpetual hour glass state which turned to white screen with wrong flashes) with fimware (mine was a Glacier 8gb type) and one of the flashes that seem to load ok allowed the player to play audios and not video. I tried a different one that also loaded and allowed me to boot to menus and this one played both, hurray. (This was the one that gave me the same welcome message on boot up as it originally had!)

I then set about using an amv converter recomended from this site and experimented with all sizes and frame rates and video settings. Mine would only play frame rates of 10 (12 and 15 would cause errors independent of resolution or picture dimensions!)

Good Luck
Tony

Ok, thanks for that. I've tried a few mp3 utilities, it doesn't seem to recognise the device is connected to enable me to update the firmware.

I don't get a hour glass or anything like that either, just the dreaded white screen of death! I tried the flash reboot procedure too, that didn't do a thing. I think my device is screwed! I got what I paid for, the device itself is useless as a 1 gig device anyway!

[Tony Saul]

Ok. It's a fare cop then. I got 2gb out of my supposedly 8 gb. I can't see the point in puttiing whole films on these things, the odd music video for a change can be stimulating. Anyhow if you have tried diffent usb ports and your operating system doesn't ask if you want to install a non microsoft approved driver for your mp4 then maybe your mps is too far gone. I don't know. Shame as it's annoying to be beat, but I guess that's life, ying and yang. The next one that works will feel that much better. So long.
Tony

[ballboff]

well since the time of writing this, i have indeed tried again, not wanting to be defeatest! I am now in the process of updating my firmware, somehow the little programs I found on this site seemed to pick up the device where others didn't. I've got to admit it's taking a lot longer than expected, but sure enough i have a green progress bar, and a progress bar means progress in my book. It says about a hour left, so watch this space. Although i have seen the occasional error, I reckon I just haven't picked the right firmware, but like I said, it's progress none the less. Watch this space, there may still be life in this old dog!

[Tony Saul]

Post if it's a success. I haven't seen too many of those. Just lots of people moaning! Joke.

Tony

[Tony Saul]

Hate to say this but my mp3/4 (looking exactly like yours) took 10 secs to flash. If you still have no luck...have you tried the link I gave and the original utility software that comes with the player. I can supply if you don't have it. Was the welcome screen when you had it woking a clown Juggling and "Welcome" in multicoloured letters? I could tell you which one of the bin firmwares this is.
Tony

[mulka]

Dear Tony,
Can u please provide the details of the firmware u referred in your post (a clown Juggling and "Welcome" in multicoloured letters). Mine had the same main menu as displayed on the dead player toolkit (http://www.mympxplayer.org/glacier-r...evc-df621.html). I have the same player (now dead) but no firmware available here or on s1mp3.org seem to be working....inspite of large number of attempts.
pl respond..

HM
h_mulka@yahoo.com

[Tony Saul]

Hi,
The "Welcome" screen was actually a red jacketted soldier with a big hat and a brass musical instrument and the "Bye Bye" screen was a wizard. Clown huh, what was I on...mind you they both look a bit like a clown. Anyway, the short cut that you mention with the picture of the player is a download (if you scroll down a bit further) that includes a load of firmware files (.bin files), you will have to download the 7-zip tool (free) to unzip the downloaded file.(just do a google for it). A couple of these bin files allowed me to access a menu on the mp4 like the one in the picture (same as yours and mine) the first which didn't do videos for me was 9.0.50_8.bin, and this was an Uexcell startup screen, however the one that is still working for me and has the "Clown" start up screen and Close screen is the 9.0.50_7.bin.
If you need the tool that I think came with this device of mine for upgrading, I probably can zip it up for you.
Let me know if you have any success.
Cheers
Tony

[mulka]

Dear Tony,
Thanks for the detailed response. I'll once again try. I have tried with many versions of the upgrade tool and presently attempting with version 4.15.
If possible, please send (or direct) the update tool that you have used successfully.
Thanks in advance...
Hemant
h_mulka@yahoo.com